Week 1

I've spent all week chatting to people about the project and generally getting my head around what we're doing and why we're doing it. I spoke to Hamza and Sue about setting up a NING community. Due to time constraints I decided to use NING, rather than consider alternatives, whether this was a good decision or not, only time will tell. Hamza has now set one up and I've put a link to it on the blog. I'm still not totally sure how this will fit together and what will be the driver behind the community of practice but I think things will become clearer as the site develops.

A few people have told me that they'll be at the focus group which is good news but I'm hoping to get more by the time we run it.

I still need to finalise the plan but the day job keeps getting in the way, and I also need to think about how to fit in the work on the models side of it with the team. Hopefully things should start coming together with our first team meeting next week and our meeting with Rob from JISC!

Starting again!

Well, after a change of personnel the DIVAS project is starting again. So far I've spent a lot of time talking to people and finding out what we really want to do.

So, today I've set up this blog and I've fed in a more technical blog that Ben has been posting to. I've sent an email to the Teaching and Learning Directors of the faculties asking them to a focus group - so far not a huge response but I have asked them to pass on the invite. Also I've invited all the project team and the project director to meetings once a month so we can all keep each other up to date.

Later on this week, hopefully the community of practice should be set up and then it'll be a push behind that. We have a meeting with Rob Bristow from Jisc on 3rd July and we should have a complete updated project plan by the end of the week.

It's been a bit of a slow start but hopefully things will speed up soon!